Welcome to WSDM 2017

Is there an impact of double-blind reviewing in a conference setting? On bidding behavior? On reviewing behavior? Does fame pay? Find out which reviewing model WSDM should use in the future… During WSDM 2017, the PC chairs Andrew Tomkins and Min Zhang ran an experiment on single-blind vs double-blind reviewing. A detailed write-up of the experiment plus an analysis of the results by Andrew Tomkins, Min Zhang and William D. Heavlin has been posted on arXiv at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502v1.pdf. A summary of the design, analysis and conclusion of the experiment is on Google docs.

For registration, follow the WSDM banners by the east entrance of The Guildhall upstairs to the registration desk, which will be open 8:15am–7:00pm daily!

InfoFebruary 5, 2017

An up-to-date PDF version of the conference booklet with the full program is available for offline reading.

InfoFebruary 2, 2017

WSDM 2017 will be the largest European edition of WSDM ever. Some of the workshops on Friday February 10 are sold out or nearly sold out. If you still want to register for one of the workshops that has room, please hurry up.

ProgramJanuary 18, 2017

We are proud to announce Nick Craswell, Principal Applied Science Manager in Microsoft, as one of our Practice and Experience track speakers.

Notifications for the main conference have been sent out. This year we received 505 valid submissions, 35% more than any past year. We were able to accept only 80 of these, representing an accept rate of about 16%.